Just now, Texas Eagle said:

Next news to break will be the Eagles plan to move him to safety.

He’d be better than Mills 

19 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

Ill make another point about Mills here. As we know, he was arguably as good or better than both Epps, and Gardner-Johnson. But the comparison is not equal. Mills played here in a time where we played a ton of single high stuff. Mills was a tad slow for the CB position, and for being a single high safety.

Gannon's defense would have benefitted him even more. By all accounts, Dessai's will be similar. Mills wont have to cover so much field. His lack of speed wont be exploited as much. He will have a smaller zone to cover, and will be able to key downhill quicker to help support the run which he is excellent at as well.

I think he and Blankenship sneakily make a solid to good safety tandem.

Again, not ideal. Not anyone's first choices. Upgrade it if you can. But as a minimum, I want Mills here, and now. 

Big time agree on this, particularly if he is not expensive. The thing is, he can flex all over the formation. For a moment, forget about the safety part of it. What if, say, one of your outside corners goes down?

Right now, who in the hell do we have to replace...either of them? Williams? If Mills was here, though, he'd be an NFL backup to one or both outside corners, and you can slide Maddox to safety, meaning that you just need to replace slot corner. That is a MUCH better situation going into the draft than having our two top corners and then a massive "?" behind that.

Mills can at worst back up both safety and outside corner, and for me that's worth the likely low amount of money he will command. He also adds a floor for safety, so you can take a risk on a starting safety, similar to what you're doing with Penny, rather trying to settle for something more reliable but worse.

Amos for example, he had a down year last year. With Mills around though, that raises the floor for the spot across from Ship. Johnson is out there too. I think it's a really good idea, particularly if you plan to add another player there to compete.

 

Just now, Texas Eagle said:

Next news to break will be the Eagles plan to move him to safety.

 

1 minute ago, ManuManu said:

We’re fine. We have Greedy Williams. 

Would that be such a bad idea?  The Eagles have a really good track record converting untapped CBs to safety.  

2 minutes ago, Texas Eagle said:

Frustrating news heading into a Monday

worse news is that tomorrow is Monday.

And Im kind of in Limbo here as far as work goes. I dont know if I should show up at Body Armor or not. 

 

 

1 minute ago, eagle45 said:

 

Would that be such a bad idea?  The Eagles have a really good track record converting untapped CBs to safety.  

Isn’t he a terrible tackler? Thought I read that on here

11 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I think CJGJ wasn’t as reliable or good as his potentially unrepeatable INT total and fiery demeanor led many to believe.

 

But still…losing Sanders, Seumalo, CJGJ, Epps, Hargrave, Edwards…….that’s 6 starters.  There is a lot of work to be done.  And these draft picks better step up.

Those aren't irreplaceable guys but they do need to be replaced at some point

1 minute ago, eagle45 said:

 

Would that be such a bad idea?  The Eagles have a really good track record converting untapped CBs to safety.  

He is a bad tackler so probably. 

2 minutes ago, Alphagrand said:

He’d be better than Mills 

Not really.

6 minutes ago, RLC said:

Unless the Titans are willing to eat money, Byard is not tradable.

He's also due a bunch of money over the next two seasons and has already declined to take a pay cut. I don't blame him for not wanting to but I don't think we are in a position to take on that contract.

23 minutes ago, ManuManu said:

Was this known that we were trying to re-sign Minshew?

Nothing I saw indicated that 

We were always going to lose starters on D.  Limiting the serious damage to S and LB isn't the worst outcome.

13 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

I think CJGJ wasn’t as reliable or good as his potentially unrepeatable INT total and fiery demeanor led many to believe.

 

But still…losing Sanders, Seumalo, CJGJ, Epps, Hargrave, Edwards…….that’s 6 starters.  There is a lot of work to be done.  And these draft picks better step up.

All 2022 picks better step it up as well

Just now, ManuManu said:

He is a bad tackler so probably. 

For a high safety, tackling is pretty overrated IMO.  

Just now, DaEagles4Life said:

Interceptions and "swag" have clouded Eagles fans judgement of him. The Saints signed a past his prime honey badger to big money and got rid of him. The league showed little interest in free agency and he got a one year for 6.5 million guaranteed. He gambled, overplayed his hand, and lost. 

Just now, Connecticut Eagle said:

We were always going to lose starters on D.  Limiting the serious damage to S and LB isn't the worst outcome.

The most serious damage was Hargrave

3 minutes ago, AmericanEagle77 said:

Big time agree on this, particularly if he is not expensive. The thing is, he can flex all over the formation. For a moment, forget about the safety part of it. What if, say, one of your outside corners goes down?

Right now, who in the hell do we have to replace...either of them? Williams? If Mills was here, though, he'd be an NFL backup to one or both outside corners, and you can slide Maddox to safety, meaning that you just need to replace slot corner. That is a MUCH better situation going into the draft than having our two top corners and then a massive "?" behind that.

Mills can at worst back up both safety and outside corner, and for me that's worth the likely low amount of money he will command. He also adds a floor for safety, so you can take a risk on a starting safety, similar to what you're doing with Penny, rather trying to settle for something more reliable but worse.

Amos for example, he had a down year last year. With Mills around though, that raises the floor for the spot across from Ship. Johnson is out there too. I think it's a really good idea, particularly if you plan to add another player there to compete.

 

yep.

And you already know Mills will do whatever is asked of him. Hes shown that. Good guy to have around.

3 minutes ago, HazletonEagle said:

worse news is that tomorrow is Monday.

And Im kind of in Limbo here as far as work goes. I dont know if I should show up at Body Armor or not. 

We only need you a couple times a year for board meetings. 

3 minutes ago, eagle45 said:

 

Would that be such a bad idea?  The Eagles have a really good track record converting untapped CBs to safety.  

horrible idea. Greedy Williams makes Asante Samuel look like John Lynch tackling.

1 minute ago, eagle45 said:

For a high safety, tackling is pretty overrated IMO.  

I doubt coaches or GMs would agree. 

From The Inquirer article:

According to sources familiar with the team’s negotiations, the Eagles offered Gardner-Johnson a multi-year deal at the start of free agency that was worth more than what he ultimately signed for with the Lions. However, Gardner-Johnson was seeking to be paid an annual average in salary just shy of Bates. The Eagles’ initial offer wasn’t there, and he hoped ensuing offers would be as the Eagles shifted their focus elsewhere.

So they showed they value him enough to offer him more than what he got. And decided not to double back later when he could be had at a bargain comparatively to their first offer.

More to come about this. None of it is really adding up.

Just now, Texas Eagle said:

The most serious damage was Hargrave

For a single player, of course.  But looking at it through the lens of position groups, they did keep Cox and Graham to at least keep the DL is working order.

Not sure what the Eagles are looking for at S given they don’t have a passing game coordinator/DB coach.  The Eagles do have Ss on the roster.  Some with real decent speed in Chachere and McCollum. Blakenship and Wallace do have some playing experience as does Scott.  Eagles have 8 CBs.   Not a great S draft.  We’ll see what shakes out.

3 minutes ago, LeanMeanGM said:

Nothing I saw indicated that 

I shouldn’t even doubt Igglesnut. That guy is on Twitter twice as much as me, which really says something.